Arabic vocabulary
الْقَوْمُthe people
How to say “the people” in Arabic, with pronunciation and an example from OpenArabic texts.
Example sentences
فَقَامَ الْقَوْمُ مُعْتَذِرِينَ وَقَالُوا
So the people stood up, apologizing, and said.
الْقَوْم — the people. A collective definite noun ('the people') and the doer of the rising, so it takes the plain naming ending. It is the group the next descriptive word will color in.
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